Just wanted to say congratulations on the birth of your little girl she is absolutely beautiful .I am glad all went well with your delivery and she is a beautiful happy and healthy little girl may God continue to bless you and your family and keep everyone safe always.

Ivy?! That's a nice shocker!! I was not going to find out the name but its ok! She is sooo cute! I cant picture her with the Seewalds though. To me the name just does not fit in. IDK why. I cant picture them holding her

Reading these comments makes me realize how spoiled so many of us are. To have the audacity to say a very nice, 2Br house is isn’t good enough for a young family of 5 is just mind blowing to me. The Seewalds have more comforts and space than most people in this world, and hopefully they are appreciative for it instead of greedy for more like some of the commenters here.

I always smile at these comments with people wanting massive houses. I have a relative with four kids in a room (two bunk beds). I have many relatives with two kids per room. I know most people want the babies as far away as possible in modern society but many families still want to keep the baby in the parents' room for the first year.

I grew up in a two/bedroom one/bath house with 3 sisters and all 4 of us girls slept in one bed, there may have been 2 beds at one point. Our neighbor had a 3 bedroom house talk about wow... but we were fine and happy.

It's actually nice having your children close by. I have 6 children. We have a 3 bedroom house but one room is the office. So we have 4 kids in one room and two in my room. It works out great right now. Until they big bigger.

Jessa mentioned adding an addition where the carport is. But I think they still have a year to think about it. And yes, all over the world while families share one bedroom. Even my grandparents who grew up in the us did this. My Ben and Jessa have the means so I'm sure they are in planning.

Honestly if they’re all young enough you can have four kids in a room.They play outside most of the time and in their living room so all their bedroom is really used for is sleeping. As long as you can fit enough beds in there they’ll be good. I could see the Seewalds living in that house for 2 or three more years before buying a bigger one.

She's adorable. She looks like a mixture of Jessa and Ben. Can't wait to watch the gender reveal and birth on TV. I hope it is a one hour special. Hopefully soon! Congratulation Ben and Jessa on the birth of your beautiful daughter. Natasha B.

Spurgeon and Wilberforce are both last names of religious movement individuals. Neither are meant for first names, but of course you can pick whatever name you want for your child. There are also a few famous religious Janes, but I doubt they were referring to them.

huh? The names Spurgeon Elliot and Henry Wilberforce are not biblical names; they are named after honorable Christian men who were missionaries and/or leaders. Looking forward to Jessa and Ben sharing how they picked Ivy's name.

The boys names are not bibilical. Inspired by missionaries yes, but not biblical. There could be plenty of reasons why they decided on this particular name for their little girl. Personally I love the name, and it would be nice if there is a story behind it, but absolutley fine to if they just happened to like those names for their babygirl.

Here we go again with the bows! Please, let's just enjoy this new birth and be happy for Ben, Jessa and the boys. How would you feel if folks were making these comments about your daughter? (Put the shoe on the other foot.)

I think Jessa put the rag-bow on her newborn daughters head because she sold the first rights to her daughter's pictures to a magazine, I believe the magazine was that USmagazine and probably wanted pictures with different head coverings on her.

My cousins do the huge bow because they are tired of everyone saying what a cute boy! I did not do a bow with my daughter and had a good laugh when people would say boy and I would ask them why and they would say, well the hair is so short. Yes, many babies and toddlers take a while for the hair to come in so that is why the hair is short.

My daughter was born 21 years ago in Northern Ireland & I put large bows on her head from birth. I used to buy them to match her outfits, in fact some of her dresses came with headbands with bows attached, so I don’t necessarily think it’s a southern thing as my daughter was born thousands of miles away from Arkansas & I dressed her very similarly to how Jinger & now Jessa dress their daughters.

@11:28AM If people kept telling me over and over that a huge bow on my baby's head looked silly, I'd listen to them. Actually, I wouldn't have a bow on her head in the first place, so that shoe doesn't need to go anywhere.

I just got back from a trip to Northern Ireland, and it was beautiful. I absolutely loved Ireland. I’m from Tennessee, and most people I know put big bows on little girls hair from birth! Some bows are bigger than the babies’ head. I most certainly put bows in my little girl’s hair. Love the bows! :)

Anon 10.12pm. I’m so glad you enjoyed your trip to Northern Ireland. My parents were from there but unfortunately had to leave when I was a young child as they had a mixed marriage between catholic & Protestant & as such suffered huge discrimination, so for safety reasons they left & moved to England. As an adult in her 20s I returned to live there with my then husband & our 2 children were born in Belfast, my daughter was actually born on the day of the good Friday agreement. Northern Ireland has wonderful scenery & amazing people, I no longer live there but I miss it every day. I hope you got a chance to see the giants causeway & the Antrim coast as it is stunningly beautiful. I would also like to visit your country, my son has actually just returned from America today & he loved his stay, he thought you had the nicest friendliest people & he actually commented that they were a lot like the people of ulster. I’m glad you also like the bows on the head as I have always thought they are very cute, my daughter had lots of them. I really don’t know why they bother people so much, surly so long as they are not causing harm (like being too tight) then surly it’s up to a child’s parents what the put on their child.

"She's a girl she should look like a girl" That's a pretty sexist statement. How DO girls look? They have long hair, they have short hair, they wear pants, they wear skirts, they wear uniforms, they work construction, they work in factories, they serve our country, they teach our kids, they nurse our elderly and infirm, they run corporations, they even enter scholarship pageants -- and they do EVERYTHING in between. There is no ONE WAY a girl should look!!!

She's adorable. I love the big bows. They weren't in style when my daughter was a baby or she would have worn them. After having two boys I bet Jessa will have fun dressing her daughter. Glad she had a safe and shorter labor and delivery.

She's adorable. I love the big bows. They weren't in style when my daughter was a baby or she would have worn them. After having two boys I bet Jessa will have fun dressing her daughter. Glad she had a safe and shorter labor and delivery.

People Magazine is carrying the news of baby Ivy's birth, but the story has Spurgeon's age as 28 months, rather than 3 yrs 7 months (43 months) and Henry's age as 13 months, rather than 2 yrs 4 months (28 months).

I wonder if Jane is after Lady Jane Grey who was crowned Queen of England between Henry VIII’s children, Edward and Mary. She was a strong Protestant lady and is significant in church history. Certainly a wonderful role model for little Ivy.

Just because you can’t pick out resemblances in new born babies doesn’t mean no one else can. I’ve never understood when people say “all newborn babies look the same”. Some people are just more observant than others.

Anon 12:57. ??? Newborns don't all "look alike" but I've never seen one with adult features that I could say he or she looks like any adult member of their family. There is a strong resemblance to Felicity's newborn photos with Ivy, but who knows how long that will last?

Anon 4:38. Since there are people saying Ivy looks like Jinger, looks like Jessa, looks like Ben, looks like Ben's mother, I'm a bit confused as to what they're seeing. She can't possibly "look like" that many different people at the SAME time. IMO new born babies don't all look alike, but they don't resemble adult relatives either.

4:02, it's not just seeing what you want to see. With no preconceived notions of what she would look like, my immediate thought when I saw Ivy's first picture was that she reminded me of Felicity. I don't think that with the other pictures I've since seen of her.

Congratulations! Ivy Jane is beautiful! I'm interested to know how you chose her name. Be ready for all the comments about the bows and headbands. If they had these when my girls were little, they probably would have worn them! They are so cute!

My thoughts on how they selected her name. (Assuming it wasn’t just because they liked Ivy Jane!)

There are several Christian missionaries in history named “Jane” or had the middle name of “Jane”. Several sounded like missionaries Ben would know about and admire. Here is a list, sorry you will have to scroll and look for “Janes”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Female_Christian_missionaries. As for “Ivy”, I’m thinking Jessa just liked the name and it means “faithfulness”.

8:48, “The Tribe” as you say all ended up excepting Jesus as their savior later on. All the men’s wives went and lived with them for a time. There’s actually a movie about it but I can’t remember the name.

8:48, not true. Even though the five were tragically killed, God brought beauty from ashes. The tribe was eventually reached for Christ. Many people went to the mission field as a result of this. The Bible tells us that there is a special reward in heaven for martyrs. This life is such a short blip, and God used theirs in many ways for eternity. Read the books by Elisabeth Elliot for another perspective.

Really Lady Jay Grey, was an amazing person, who got her head removed, cause she was Protestant, King Edward Tudors, was Protestant, he Ed. wanted England to remain Protestant, and His sister Mary was Catholic!!! So Edward forced Jane to take the Queenship, cause he knew Mary would make England Catholic, and she did. But Jane was a used figure, and she died a martyr!!!

I've heard a lot from family and friends this week commenting on sweet Ivy's name because that's our baby girl's name! She's 9 months old and we named her Ivie Jane!! I thought it was so unique so I was shocked when I heard Ben and Jessa had named their baby the same. We chose Ivie (we used a different spelling) because it means "faithful." We chose Jane because it means "Jehovah has been gracious" and he certainly has! She's a sweet blessing as is sweet Ivy Seewald! Congratulations Ben and Jessa!

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